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Where are yougoing, where have you been?
In the short story “Where Are Yougoing? Where Have You Been?”, by Joyce Carol Oates. The use of the symbolism of Connie’s clothes, her fascination with her beauty, Arnold Friend’s car and Arnold Friend himself help to understand the story’s theme of evil and manipulation. The story, fill with underlying tones of evil. In this short story, Oates write about 15-year-old Connie, the protagonist of the story, a pretty girl who is a little too into her own...

In the 1960s, when Oates wrote “Where Are YouGoing . . . ,” a social revolution was happening. American women were asserting their rights and independence from men, and they were claiming their sexuality in a way they had never done before. One frequently discussed topic was adolescence and the struggles and anxieties that many young girls endured as they lost their sexual innocence and became adult women. Feeling undervalued in their homes and relationships with men, women questioned their role...

and adulthood is frustrating and confusing, and in most adolescents, is filled with apprehension and anxiety. For the protagonist Connie, this distress is expressed in her dreamlike encounter with Arnold Friend. In the short story “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?,” Joyce Carol Oates used the interaction between her two main character, to reveal the internal fear and conflict of a fifteen year old girl maturing into a young woman.
Oates chooses narrate her story in the third person...

Where Are YouGoing, Connie?
For the most part of Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where are yougoing, Where have you been?”, Connie has been portrayed as a rebel of an adolescent. She hates staying home; she belittles her sister, criticizes her mother and is obsessed with the idea of romance and sex. Her attractive appearance as a physical advantage lends haughtiness to her rebellion. With a sister that is plain and a mother who has had her time of beauty, Connie thinks the world is hers for the taking....

that not everything in the world is the way it was thought to be, the world crumbles into pieces, but how does it happen? Joyce Carol Oates portrays an amazing detailed moment of theft of chastity, or at least what is left of it, in "Where Are YouGoing, Where have You Been?" With symbolic imagery, major bibliomancy, and extreme personal conflict Oates easily manages to get her point across of the complete loss of innocence.
A constant image that is brought to the reader’s creative thoughts is colors...

Loving, Superficial, Intimate Teens
"Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates catapults its reader into a seductive, fifteen-year-old mindset, embodied by the main character, the rebellious Connie. Connie, much like Sammy, the main character from "A & P" by John Updike, is on the prowl for companionship and sex. Their unsuccessful search for intimacy, appreciation for family life, and superficial attitudes are what bring them together as similar characters but also what...

﻿“Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?”
As I read “Where AreYouGoing, Where Have You Been?” I sat on the floor in the corner of my room, completely alone in a four-bedroom suite on a Saturday night. I desperately wished that what happened to Connie would not happen to me that night. Few stories have terrified me as much as this one by Joyce Carol Oates. I feared I would soon encounter someone like Arnold Friend, and he would threaten my family if I refused his seductions to blindly follow...

“Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?” Paper
“Where AreYouGoing, Where Have You Been?” is a short story that poses many questions centered around the protagonist, Connie and the antagonist Arnold Friend and his “comrade” Ellie. The fate of Connie at the end of the story is still up for debate after all these years after the story was published in 1966. The main question posed is who actually is Arnold Friend? Is he the devil or something else? The answer may never be fully known but in...

of women that had sex before marriage also sky rocketed. In Where Are youGoing, Where HaveYou Been, Connie wants sexual attention from men, and that hurts her self-confidence and puts a real strain on her self-esteem. The theme of this story is that younger women going through their sexual maturation have a hard time dealing with the changes of emotions towards the opposite sex. It is about the stage of life when young woman are going through their search for independence.
The first reason why...

In the short story “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been,” Joyce Carol Oats uses characterization including methods such as symbolism and allusions to develop her characters, and thus establish her theme of the cross roads Connie faces in her transition from the innocence of her adolescence to the impurity of adulthood facilitated by the antagonist, Arnold Friend.
From the beginning of the story, the reader sees Connie has a strong desire to make her early transition into adulthood. Although...

The character in “where are yougoing, where have you been?” Connie is affected by the role she plays in modern society. Fifteen year old Connie has the confusing, often exterior behavior typical of those girls who are facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood in the 1960s. She is caught between her roles as daughter, friend, sister, and object of sexual desire, uncertain of which represents her real self. The sixties were the age of youth, young people wanted change. The changes...

"Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?"
By Joyce Carol Oates
A short story titled "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" tells a tale of an adolescent girl who suffers consequences of growing up in the unsupportive environment and the society preoccupied by the media. It is considered to be the most famous work of Joyce Carol Oates, an American writer, the winner of many significant literary awards and a two- time candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The story was first...

“Where are yougoing, Where have you been:” The Media’s effect on youth
In this 1966 short story written by Joyce Carol Oates, fifteen-year-old Connie is a self-absorbed teenager who spends her time fantasizing about romance and searching for attention from men. While out with a suitor, a strange man promises her, "I'm gonna get you, baby" (2). Connie doesn't think much of the incident until one day while alone at home; the man comes to “get” her. The assailant, Arnold Friend, is kind at first then...

The dramatic irony of “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?” conveys the tone of warning about temptation. Connie’s situation is that she does not feel appreciated at home and uses her looks and actions to get attention and appreciation from boys even if it is short-term. She is self-conscious about her looks and is constantly worried about how other people perceive her. Friend’s fantasy is that Connie will willingly go with him and be his “lover” (605) even before he officially met her. The...

Connie’s Paradigm
In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story, “Where Are YouGoing, Where HaveYou Been?” we follow the main character Connie as she faces an inner transformation. The author introduces Connie as a vain and inexperienced adolescent who seems to daydream about things she doesn’t quite understand as she has more of a naive idea of what adulthood is all about. She takes pleasure in having control over everyone and everything around her. These ideas as well as her security are shaken when the...

September 2014
Essay 1- Rough Draft
Fantasy Vs. Reality in Joyce Carol Oates'
“Where Are YouGoing,Where Have You Been?”
There are often times when a perception is the total opposite of reality. People are gifted with creating illusions or fantasies based on what they fully believe that something can be. False perception verses reality is seen in Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?” Symbols throughout the story also play a major role in the theme. Oates...

the other a sociopath, but can one be normal? Mary Flannery O’Connor’s story “A Good Man is hard to Find” is about a family who goes on a vacation, get in an accident and is murdered while asking for help. Joyce Carol Oates story “Where are yougoing, where have you been?” is a story about a young girl who is lured in by a strange man who will be forced to feel “his love”. Although these are two different criminals, they both have tactics that make them similar such as appearance, speech and their...

Charles Howard Schmid, Jr. also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson," was an American
serial killer. In the story, Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates,
the character Arnold Friend was based on the serial killer in which Connie was one of the many
victims he had abducted. There are many possibilities on how the author intends the readers to
understand it. Such as, it could be a dream that Connie is having, in all actuality it could be real;
it could send a message...

In Joyce Carol Oates’ “‘Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?’ and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film,” Oates writes that Connie “An innocent young girl is seduced by way of her own vanity” and that “she confuses death for erotic romance” (419). Oates clearly defines her point when Connie first discovers Arnold Friend at the drive in diner. She catches Friend staring at her with a big smile and Connie “slit her eyes at him and turned away, but she couldn’t help looking back” (409). The fact...

INTRODUCTION:
“Where Are YouGoingWhere Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol, showcases the inevitable effects of youthful exuberance in a teenage girl. The story is a compelling tale which unveils the vulnerability of Connie, a young teenage girl who could barely substantiate fantasy from reality. She prides herself as a pretty girl who understands the basic principles of life. Her encounter with Arnold Friend reveals her as someone who lacks the mental ability to make meaningful decisions and accurate...

﻿Jennifer McVicker
English 102
March 21, 2015
Where’s The Blame?
In the story “Where Are Going? Where HaveYou Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates is based on a real life rapist and victim. Through out the story Connie’s decisions may lead people to believe that she instigated the tragedy that happened to her. Although, it looks as if Connie is to blame but she is a, but she actually is at the mercy of stronger forces.
One reason why Connie could be blamed for her tragedy is that she is sill, giddy and...

part of a humans life and it is up to the persons decisions to find out whether or not its going to affect there future. In some people views in innocence is freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil. At some point in everyone’s life they will eventually lose there innocence, it just depends on the choices they have made. In Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been.” She uses characterization and imagery to show how Connie is dealing with the loss...

“Where Are YouGoing , Where Have you been”
It is well known that the most awkward and difficult time in one’s life is adolescents. One is face with the challenges of discovering who one is and what one wants out of life. One finds themselves frustrated and confuse in this particular stage. They are mid way between a bridge. They have left childhood but have not yet reach adulthood. They struggle to find some sense of being and individuality in the world. They are on a quest to find themselves...

True Meaning
“Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home”(1369), this character, Connie, in “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, is depicted as a self-centered, condescending, insecure fifteen year old girl growing into a woman. Connie comes off as a troubled young girl who consistently uses her sexuality for attention but at the same time is afraid of intimacy. This is said be due to her fractured relationships with...

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The Religious subtext of Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been? is a short story by author Joyce Carol Oates. It is the story set in the late 1960s of a how a 15 year old girl named Connie is lured and deceived and is eventually abducted by Arnold Friend and his accomplice Ellie. Connie is a teenage girl who like any teenage girl has issues with her parents and older sister June. Her mother is constantly criticizing Connie and comparing her to June...

Danette Willis
June 15, 2013
English 11238A
A Masterpiece in Disguise
The first line of Oates literary work “Where AreYouGoing, Where Have You Been” indicates that the conclusion to Connie’s existence may have come to a terrible end.
In the short story, “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been” written by Joyce Carol Oates, the story takes you on a journey through the eyes of a helpless girl, who, as shown by the three opening words, came to a very unfortunate collapse. This particular...

Allegories in “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?”
In “Where AreYouGoing, Where Have You Been?,” Joyce Oates constitutes the use of allegories to create a sense of suspense in the story. The story depicts the way society was in the 1960s. In this time period, there were a lot of controversies that cause a lot of frustration. Many stories written during the 1960s involved a lot of the same things that are in this coming-of-age story. The issues incorporated into “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You...

Going through life, adapting to changes as you grow older and transforming from a young and reckless, naïve child into a working, responsible adult could be very fearful. Change itself is one of the biggest fears people encounter each and every day. Having to do things on their own, or figuring out if the decisions they make are right and if their experiences are going to help them or just hurt them more in the long run. In Connie's experience with Arnold Friend, whether it is real or a dream, the...

The Fantasy of Life
In the novels The Great Gatsby and "Where Are YouGoing and Where HaveYou Been" authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Joyce Carol Oates show a theme of fantasy versus reality to convey a deeper meaning within their novels. They express this theme using characters such as Gatsby, Connie, Daisy and Arnold Friend within the stories. Through these characters lives and experiences the theme is created connecting both stories.
The theme of fantasy versus reality is used to a great extent...

In Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" critics
argue whether the character of Arnold Friend, clearly the story's antagonist, represents
Satan in the story. Indeed, Arnold Friend is an allegorical devil figure for the main reason
that he tempts Connie, the protagonist, into riding off with him in his car.
Oates characterizes Arnold Friend at first glance as "a boy with shaggy, black hair,
in a convertible jalopy painted gold"(581). She lets the reader know that Arnold...

adulthood. In Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" the author goes into depth of the transition from being a carefree, innocent child to the complexity and uncertainty of the future when one becomes an adult. The message begins even before the story itself actually does. The title illustrates the passage of time in life such as the phrase "where are yougoing" refers to the question of what direction does one have for his own life. "Where have you been?" is a question which involves...

Fantasy versus Reality in Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates has a constant theme of reality and fantasy running parallel for 15 year old Connie. This short story begins with a description of Connie’s vain personality. The narrator describes her as pretty and self-centered (Oates 421). To emphasize her selfishness, Connie is contrasted with her sister, June, who is chubby, plain, and well-behaved. Connie’s mother always...

Comparison of Smooth Talk to “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?”
Joyce Carol Oakes’s short story, “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?” was written in 1966 and twenty years later was made into a movie entitled Smooth Talk, winner of the 1985 U.S. Film Festival for best dramatic picture. The writing by Oates is loosely based on a true story described as “the tale of Charles Schmid, a twenty-three-year-old who cruises teenage hangouts, picking up girls for rides in his gold convertible”...

Yolanda Williams
ENG 200-018
Spring 2012
Dr. D. Roemer
“Lost Little Girl”
Because the world is not what it seems to be, you have to be careful, especially when you are young. Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?” tells us about the life of Connie who has no guidance in her life, because her family has not provided any moral support, value or respect to help through her teenage years. She only knows about popular culture and how beautiful...

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"Where Are YouGoing, Where have You Been"
Vanity can be exposed as one's greatest weakness. "Where Are YouGoing, Where have You Been", a short story written by Joyce Carol Oates, describes Connie's misconception of beauty as her only value, and also the ways in which Arnold Friend, a potential rapist and murderer, manipulates and takes advantage of Connie's vanity. Connie is a fifteen year old girl who knows the extent to which her beauty can be used to her advantage...

short story, “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?” Her story demonstrates how sexuality is used for manipulation and how sexuality is used for attention.
To further, understand Oates’ illustration of sexuality, it is important to share a synopsis of her short story. In, “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates shares a story about a fifteen-year-old girl named Connie who encounters Arnold Friend, a predator whose first words to Connie are, “Gonna get you, baby” (Oates)...

power to distress humans both with physical sickness and with spiritual corruption is inexplicable. However, the idea of a man with such power and knowledge has been used in stories and films alike. In Joyce Carol Oates' short story, "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" Oates depicts Arnold Friend as the Devil; we can see this through his physical description, strange seduction, and his supernatural knowledge of Connie.
The bodily features of Arnold Friend suggest he is the devil in disguise...

Miller 1
Timothy B. Miller
Prof. Nicholas Young
LITR-221
June 23, 2013
Where Have You Been, Where AreYouGoing: A. Friend’s View.
His name was Arnold Friend. He was getting older but still liked the young ladies around town. Arnold came from a broken home. His father had been in prison since right after his birth for some reason or another and his mother did her best to raise him courting a string of good-for-nothing losers who were in and out of her life faster than crap through a goose...

Teenagers in general are often stereotyped into one general category: unruly, uncaring, and self-absorbed. In the short story “Where areYouGoing, Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates plays on this stereotype. She uses imagery and point of view to direct the reader’s attention to the teenage girl psyche, selfish, whimsical, and longing for attention and affection, and how this stereotypical psyche can be distorted and controlled.
The protagonist of the story, Connie, is a vain, “typical”...

Know Where Management Is Going
As you read in the first two Williams “MGMT” chapters, management theories are dynamic. In other words, they change over time, sometimes very rapidly. In addition, management theories have often been cumulative, meaning that later theorists tend to build on theories previously advanced by other scholars. Thus, a new theory becomes the starting point for yet another theory that can either refine or refute the management thinking of the day.
One way to prepare for...

Commentary on "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been"
10/17/06
Joyce Carol Oates has achieved many things through her writing, and is recognized worldly for her short story "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" This story is centered on a young teenage girl as many of her stories are. Oates as a writer is fascinated with adolescence of young females. She chooses to write about the trials and tribulations of growing up in modern society. She pries on the dark aspects of youth often...

There are many notorious characters in literature, all with their own menacing qualities and depraved actions. None, however, have struck such a devastatingly creepy chord as Arnold Friend of Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" Seducer of young girls and embodiment of Lucifer, Arnold Friend is anything but a friend. Arnold Friend is presented through both actions and appearances, and these combine to diminish his likeability, while adding to his devilish persona. Although...

﻿Xiaotian Zou
Eng 200
Essay 2
Love: Fantasy versus Reality in “Where are yougoing, where haveyou been?”
Love is what most of the people are pursuing. And there are people say: “love is complicated”. It is true; love is a variety of different feelings with different states and attitudes. Ancient Greeks identified four forms of love: familiarity, friendship, sexual, and self-emptying. In the story “Where are yougoing, where have you been”, the main character Connie encounters conflicts of love...

Hunter Vernon
English 1100
Charles Radcliffe
Essay 2, draft 1
Devil in Disguise
In Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where are yougoing, where have you been?”, Oates tells the story of a young girl named Connie, who is vain, self-centered, rude to her parents, and in an incredible hurry to grow up. She has two different personalities, “one for home, and one for anywhere that was not home.” Everything about her including her smile, her laugh, and her walk transforms as soon as she steps out her front...

The Two Sides of Connie
‘Narrative details in ' Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?’
The story ' Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?' is about the fifteen year old Connie who is a girl struggling with her sexuality. The girl tries to be an adult and attractive, but at the same time, she hides her sexual side from her family. These two sides cannot remain separate from each other at all times and collide with each other, which this short story depicts. The main idea in this short story...

﻿Maria Bustos
Instructor: Ms. Cowart
English 102
February, 4, 2015
Short Story Essay #1
“Where are yougoing,Where have you been”
The short story about Connie deals with the experience of a young girl that is haunted by her good looks and cryptic behaviors. Inspired by a Life article of a serial killer, Oates created the story to: “It was not the number of murders that intrigued me, but the disturbing fact that a number of teenagers –from “good” families—aided and abetted his crimes” (Oates...

Erika Villanueva
“Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been”
By Joyce Carol Oates
There are things that happen when we are growing up that change us when we are grown. There are things that change us forever. Every human being is different, and there is a reason why . All of us had a childhood and all kinds of experiences some good, some bad, some full of joy but also others very painful. Eventually we grow childhood and mature depending of what we have gone through. The way we are able to...

"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" and "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been"
While reading, "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" and "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been" the readers find themselves lost in worlds of suspense, horror and comic relief through tone and symbolism. Although, the stories contain very different plots, they both have a sense of "good vs. evil."
In "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", Grandmother is a deep religious character that gives the story a depth of interest. The reader...

12, 2008
Film Analysis
“O Brother Where Art Thou”
This old time musical theatrical movie clip was an insightful blast from the past that made you cherish those days where it was inconceivable to not be a gentlemen, and it was a down right shame to be anything less then an honest women. This old time movie with a new age attitude definitely strikes the funny bone of any modern day movie watcher.
“The opening titles inform us that the Coen Brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou" is based on Homer's...

In the short stories "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "Where Are YouGoing, Where HaveYou Been" the antagonists are The Misfit and Arnold Friend respectively. Both are mentally unstable and murderers, but that is where the similarities end. The protagonists of the stories are Grandma and Connie respectively. Both seem to be dissimilar at first but as the stories progress more similarities than differences become apparent to the reader.
In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is The Misfit is uneducated...

in 1935, Auden did not love her. This was an arranged marriage which allowed her to have the British citizenship and escape from Nazi Germany.Auden met his true love, the poet Chester Kallman, in New York in 1939. Kallman became Auden’s companion for the rest of his life. Love is a recurrent theme in Auden’s poetry but so are many others such as world war two, politics, indifference, nature or time. Therefore, we could ask ourselves how important love is in Auden’s poetry.
As Auden has been...

Where Are You Smooth Talking?
The saying goes the only difference between a tragedy and a comedy is the ending. Meaning no matter how tragic or comedic a story begins, the ending is what determines what type of story was told (thus what genre it falls in). This concept of endings is greatly exemplified through the comparison of the short story Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates and the film the story was based on called Smooth Talk. Both works contain an abundance of similarities...

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O Brother Where Art Thou?
O Brother Where Art Thou?, begins with Ulysses, Pete and Delmar escaping from prison that was located in the middle of nowhere. Ulysses told his companions that he has hidden a treasure from back in the day, but they must get it in 4 days or it will be lost forever due to a flood. Soon Everett, Pete, and Delmar meet a blind soothsayer, who tells them, "You seek a great fortune, you three who are now in chains. You will find a fortune, though...

Cc Between Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been? And The Movie Smooth TalkWhere have you Been Smooth Talking?
In the short story Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates, the lifestyle of protagonist Connie is described. Connie was a typical 15-year-old. She was outgoing, fun, and social. She had the worst relationship with her mother and her relationship with her father was not explained because he was not home much. Connie’s main concern was boys; she would do anything...

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The Chronicle Review
October 3, 2010
What Are YouGoing to Do With That?
Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review
By William Deresiewicz
The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May.
The question my title poses, of course, is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I'm bothering to raise it here...

There are many similarities between the short stories "Good Country People" and "Where are yougoing,Where have you been?", most notably their characters. Both stories contain a female protagonist, and a male antagonist, whose confrontations start out relatively normal, and progress to more and more surreal and twisted endings. Their main characters, Hulga and Connie, are shockingly similar, and yet strangely different, one a 15 year old wishing to be older and beautiful, the other a bitter 32 year...

few line of stanza stanza one Auden starts off by recreating what the present condition was like at the time of his death to create a gloomier atmosphere to get the readers attention. He does this in most of his poem, creating an atmosphere to get the readers attention such as now the leaves are falling fast. “Now the leaves are falling fast” Auden recreates very windy atmosphere to start of the poem, to set up the lament which is “Nurse’s flowers will not last;” Auden poems are always well structured...

CHOOSE A CHARACTER FROM HARRISON BERGERON OR “WHERE ARE YOUGOINGWHERE HAVE YOU BEEN” DO A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THAT CHARACTER.
The story and characters that was chosen was “Where Are YouGoingWhere Have You been.” The character Connie is a 15 year old teenager who doesn’t get along with her mother. She always fussing at her about staying in the mirror so much, her mother wants her to be like her sister June but, her parents showed her sister more attention...

thin shoulders rigid with excitement, and listened to the music that made everything so good: the music was always in the background like music at a church serve, it was something to depend on.”
This paragraph in the short-story “Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?”, is a look into how the author Joyce Carol Oates views adolescent values. She parallels religion and religious practices with the main character’s Saturday nights. Oates carefully designed this paragraph to illustrate a social...

passing from one grade to another in school. Other changes are more intense, such as the transition from childhood to adulthood. In Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" Oates goes into depth regarding the transition from being a carefree, innocent child to adulthood. In the short story "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" two separate worlds are drawn to the reader's attention. The first is the normal daily life of Connie, a fifteen year old girl living in a home with...